Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-30
KANSAS NEWS.

KANSAS NEWS.
Mr.. Mills is to establish starch factory
at Independence.
The new gas we'll discovered at Fort Scott
| is said to have flow Of 1000 cubic feet 8
day.
Kauapolis is to have a foundry and
machine shop, the contracts having been
let.
Marshall county has 1872 ,school houses
which cost over $l20, Zoo, nearly all which ID
paid.
Salina ia building 100000 hotel, which
will be, when completed, the finest hotel in
the state.
Independence has fine wholesale houses
which carry in the aggregate stock worth
over $4,000
At Hiawatha the railroads during 1886 col
lected $147, Isl for freight and passenger
transportation.
OF the nine hundred square miles in
Washington county not one acre of the
whole area is swampy.
The value of the public school buildings
of Emporia is $135, 967, and it costs $25, 900
q year TO support the schools.
There is talk of erecting a grindstone
factory at Independence. First class stone,
equal TO Berea, has been found.
The State Medical society meets at Win
field on May 15 in a convention of three
days. There are $50 members.
Mrs. Noble L. Prentis has formed syn.
dictate of ladies which is making extensive
pure lases of Atchison real estate.
A team of bay horses was stolen on Tues
day night of last week from David Hoover,
three miles north west of Ottumwa.
A report ia current that four-foot vein
of Ignite has been discovered within 200
feet of the surface not far from Osborne.
Lyons Republican: J. @. Clark leads the
van 80 far as We have heard in planting
trees,-he planted about 119 on Arbor day.
The board of trade of Ottawa are negotiat-
ing with eastern parties for the erection Of
a canning factory, look works and carriage
factory.
There are fifty church organizations in
Washington county having an aggregate
membership of 4, PIT and property valued at
$4,000.
Reports from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
say that numbers of well-to-d0 farmers in
those states are preparing to purchase land
in Kansas.
The Halstead Herald tells OF q car of
naptha exploding, and setting fire to and
bu ming five cars. A neighboring house was
saved with difficulty.
There is now no doubt that the Missouri
pooifiO ui11 Of nFnNood fn ovko
sive shop and hospital upon land purchas-
ed year ago near Atohison.
A proposition was presented, the past
week, to the Columbus Board of Trade, to
establish fusil or essential oil distillery at
that point by Wisconsin parties.
Salina numbers among her improve
ments street railway at q cost of $35, 600
gas works at cost of $50, 900 and the Holly
system of water works at cost of 800, 0OO
The Usage Free Press tells of little
boy two and half year old, that got hold of q
bottle of carbolic acid which had been left
on stand, and swallowed portion of it.
courier was at once sent for physician,
but long before his arrival the child had died.
In fact its death occurred ina few moments
after the discovery of the accident.
The Troy Chief says that for the first. time
within the recollection of the Oldest inhabi
tant there are no criminal cases on the
docket of the Do1iphan county district
court.
A case of genuine small pox is reported at
Newton. A lady passing through to Dodge
was taken from the train, and the Newton
doctors pronounce it a severe case of small
p0x.
A soap factory company has been Or
ganized in Qaenemo with q capital stock of
one thousand dollars. The company will
begin operations as soon as grounds for
location are secu ed,
The board of trade of Wichita are figuring
on propositions for nail mill to be erected
by Pennsylvania parties, a large stone dress
ing establishment from Peoria, ILL.,, and
large carpet factory from Indiana.
Harvey count, has withdrawn the San
Francisco bond proposition which was
pending in that county, owing to the injunc-
ton which was placed upon the Greenwood
county proposition to the same road last
week.
Great Bend Register: Mr. Dushene was
trimming trees, aud let his boy have his
knife, which was very keen, to use while:
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more force than necessary, which carried
the knife to his eye, cutting the pupil open.
Earnest McCa6fey, ten year old son Of
Mr.. McCaffey who resides in Summit
township Chautauqa, county, was kicked
and almost instantly killed by q horse be-
longing to one of his neighbors. 1t is
the horse in kicking him on the
neckbroke his jugular vein and that he died
from internal bleeding.
The disastrous prairie fire which swept |
over Decatur couuty is said to have entailed
! loss of 1000, and was the most destruc-
i've that ever visited the county. In the |
year 1878-the year Of the Indian raid-the |
whole north west was burned over, but the |
,ountry then being much more sp arsely set
led than now, the actual damage inflicted |
vas not great, when viewed from COM |
,arative standpoint.
A little 6-year-old girl of Nathan Miller, |
Who lives just over the Kingman county |
inc, met with an accident which has
NAMED her for life. The little one was |
Having ahonk a corn shelter that was in |